Monday, September 14, 2015 to Friday, September 18, 2015
Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health and legal professionals involved in the treatment and care of children of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview:
Clinicians evaluating patients who have experienced sexual assault often fail to recognize the importance of comprehensive medical treatment and evaluation of the patient, which is included in the medical forensic examination. They lack basic training in performing the medical forensic evaluation of the patient, and are unable to provide the services or the care necessary to prevent long term health sequelae in the aftermath of sexual violence. Current peer reviewed literature indicates that to provide the best outcomes for the patient in terms of their health and well-being, a provider needs specialized education and training in the care of this patient population. This online training will provide clinical information, along with the cultural and historical information necessary for completing a medical forensic evaluation on the American Indian/Alaska Native populations that Indian Health Services provide services to.
Presenter(s):
Angie Ellis, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Angie has worked in the field of nursing for the past 23 years, the past 21 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her nursing experience includes: Labor and Delivery, Emergency, Flight nursing, and Forensics. She has practiced as a forensic nurse for the past 18 years and manages the forensic department that sees 500 patients per year. Angie received National certification as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for Adults/Adolescents in 2003 and for certification for Pediatrics in 2007. She has taught nurses and medical staff, law enforcement, advocates, and attorneys for the past 16 years both in the state of Alaska and nationally. She is the team lead for the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Team at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is a consultant for the other Bannerhealth SCAN teams.
Kim Nash, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Ms. Nash has been practicing as a registered nurse for 15 years and as a forensic nurse for 7 years. She earned her BSN from Regis University in 1998 and became a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in 2006. Dual board certified as a SANE-A and a SANE-P, she is part of a team of forensic nurses at Memorial Hospital, University of Colorado Health in Colorado Springs, Colorado who provide medical forensic care to more than 1200 patients per year who are victims of violence (sexual assault, intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, strangulation, human trafficking). Additionally, she provides clinical skills training through Memorial Hospital’s Simulation Laboratory, teaching sexual assault care to providers from across the US, with a special emphasis on those working in rural or underserved areas. Ms. Nash’s work at the national level includes serving on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Forensic Nurses ( IAFN) and presenting at the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice. Additionally, she is the Past President of the Colorado Chapter of IAFN. In 2012, she served as an International consultant for a USAID project in Swaziland, Africa, mentoring local health care professionals in the care of the pediatric rape patients with an emphasis on the prevention of HIV.
Physician Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and International Association of Forensic Nurses. The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Physician Credit Designation:
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing and Other Continuing Education Accreditation Statement:
The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest:
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. The existence or absence of COI for everyone in a position to control content will be disclosed to participants prior to the start of each activity.
Media:
Live
CNE CEU Evaluation:
How to Obtain your CNE Certificate
IAFN will use their standard activity evaluation for CNE. More information will be provided onsite.
Registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants are invited to attend this five-day, classroom-based pediatric sexual assault examiner (PSAE) training. Participants will learn the elements of conducting comprehensive pediatric medical forensic examinations in cases involving sexual assault. This 40 hour classroom-based course will cover topics including:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Dynamics of Pediatric Sexual Assault
- The Medical Forensic Evaluation
- Medical Management
- Program/Operational Issues
- Patient-Centered Coordinated Team Approach
- The Justice System and Testimony
- Vicarious Trauma and Self Care
Registration is free to health care providers from IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian health care facilities. Health care providers from referral facilities that serve American Indian or Alaska Native victims of sexual assault are also eligible to attend at no cost. Materials will be provided. Meals are not provided.
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